ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I’d like to take a moment to acknowledge the assistance of the following co-conspirators:

Andrew Long, for helping me give birth to a coke whore; Suzanne Greenberg, for her thorough critiques of the initial chapters; Ray Zepeda, for publishing Chapter One in The Chiron Review; Phillip Sipiora, for publishing Chapter Eight in The Mailer Review; Eric A. Johnson, for his invaluable critique of an early version of the manuscript; Chris Doyle, for his much needed legal advice and Prisoner-related percepts; Eric Blair, for last minute proofreading; Jeremy Lassen, for a fine editing job; Cory Allyn, for being a mensch; Catherine Bottolfson McCallum, for reading several different versions of the novel as it evolved sideways over time; the late Mike Webber, for “In This Room” and the strange, impromptu bedroom tour; Damien Watts, for the unforgettable, indispensable jabberwocky; Gary D. Rhodes, for being a constant source of inspiration; all my fellow inmates of CW96; Jack Womack, for going above and beyond the call of duty; Pat Cadigan, for being Pat Cadigan; everyone enrolled in the CSULB MFA Program (2001 to 2003); Steve Cooper, for general bouts of encouragement; Eileen Klink, for staving off Homeland Security agents when necessary; Melissa Guffey, for nearly everything; and Olivia Guffey, for everything else.